Donald Trump

=== Legal affairs and bankruptcies ===
{{Main|Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump}}

[[Roy Cohn]] was Trump's [[Fixer (person)|fixer]], lawyer, and mentor for 13 years in the 1970s and 1980s.<ref name="Mahler2016Cohn">{{cite web|last1=Mahler|first1=Jonathan|last2=Flegenheimer|first2=Matt|title=What Donald Trump Learned From Joseph McCarthy's Right-Hand Man|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/us/politics/donald-trump-roy-cohn.html|access-date=May 26, 2020|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=June 20, 2016}}</ref> According to Trump, Cohn sometimes waived fees due to their friendship.<ref name="Mahler2016Cohn" /> In 1973, Cohn helped Trump countersue the U.S. government for $100&nbsp;million (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|100|1973}}&nbsp;million in {{Inflation/year|US}}){{Inflation/fn|US}} over its charges that Trump's properties had racial discriminatory practices. Trump's counterclaims were dismissed, and the government's case went forward, ultimately resulting in a settlement.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=January 23, 2016|first1=Michael|last1=Kranish|author-link1=Michael Kranish|first2=Robert Jr.|last2=O'Harrow|title=Inside the government's racial bias case against Donald Trump's company, and how he fought it|access-date=January 7, 2021|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-governments-racial-bias-case-against-donald-trumps-company-and-how-he-fought-it/2016/01/23/fb90163e-bfbe-11e5-bcda-62a36b394160_story.html}}</ref> In 1975, an agreement was struck requiring Trump's properties to furnish the [[National Urban League|New York Urban League]] with a list of all apartment vacancies, every week for two years, among other things.<ref>{{cite web|last=Dunlap|first=David W.|author-link=David W. Dunlap|title=1973: Meet Donald Trump|url=https://www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2015/07/30/1973-meet-donald-trump/|access-date=May 26, 2020|date=July 30, 2015|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Cohn introduced political consultant [[Roger Stone]] to Trump, who enlisted Stone's services to deal with the federal government.<ref>{{cite web|last=Brenner|first=Marie|title=How Donald Trump and Roy Cohn's Ruthless Symbiosis Changed America|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-roy-cohn-relationship|access-date=May 26, 2020|work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]|date=June 28, 2017}}</ref>

According to a review of state and federal court files conducted by ''[[USA Today]]'' in 2018, Trump and his businesses had been involved in more than 4,000 state and federal legal actions.<ref>{{cite web|title=Donald Trump: Three decades, 4,095 lawsuits |work=[[USA Today]] |url=https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/trump-lawsuits/ |access-date=April 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180417181428/https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/trump-lawsuits/ |archive-date=April 17, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> While Trump has not filed for [[personal bankruptcy]], his over-leveraged hotel and casino businesses in Atlantic City and New York filed for [[Chapter 11 bankruptcy]] protection six times between 1991 and 2009.<ref name="TW">{{cite web|last=Winter|first=Tom|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-bankruptcy-math-doesn-t-add-n598376|title=Trump Bankruptcy Math Doesn't Add Up|work=[[NBC News]]|date=June 24, 2016|access-date=February 26, 2020}}</ref> They continued to operate while the banks restructured debt and reduced Trump's shares in the properties.<ref name="TW" />

During the 1980s, more than 70 banks had lent Trump $4&nbsp;billion.<ref>{{cite web|work=[[Reuters]]|date=July 17, 2016|first=Emily|last=Flitter|title=Art of the spin: Trump bankers question his portrayal of financial comeback|access-date=October 14, 2018|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-bankruptcies-insig/art-of-the-spin-trump-bankers-question-his-portrayal-of-financial-comeback-idUSKCN0ZX0GP}}</ref> After his corporate bankruptcies of the early 1990s, most major banks, with the exception of Deutsche Bank, declined to lend to him.<ref>{{cite web|work=[[Business Insider]]|date=December 8, 2017|first=Allan|last=Smith|title=Trump's long and winding history with Deutsche Bank could now be at the center of Robert Mueller's investigation|access-date=October 14, 2018|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-deutsche-bank-mueller-2017-12}}</ref> After the [[January 6 Capitol attack]], the bank decided not to do business with Trump or his company in the future.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Riley|first1=Charles|last2=Egan|first2=Matt|title=Deutsche Bank won't do any more business with Trump|url=https://cnn.com/2021/01/12/investing/deutsche-bank-trump/|access-date=September 14, 2022|work=[[CNN]]|date=January 12, 2021}}</ref>